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Biography

Dr. Xiaocong Simon Fan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University, China.

Before joining the faculty at Penn State Behrend, Dr. Fan conducted his post-doctoral research at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, at The Pennsylvania State University 2002-2007 During, and since that time, he has researched actively in the field of Multi-Agent Systems in three thrusts: 1 fundamental issues in team collaboration and theoretical studies in proactive information sharing; 2 construction of Intelligent Agent Architectures for simulating teamwork and for supporting Decision-Making teams; 3 experimental investigations on issues such as context-switching and trust in human-agent collaboration. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Fan was a post-doctoral scholar at Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, and the Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland. During this period, he mainly focused on software agents, agent-oriented methodologies, and fundamental issues in Program Refinement Calculus.

Yen, J., Fan, X., and Volz, R. A., “Proactive information exchanges based on the awareness of teammates’ information needs,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies at AAMAS’03, July 2003.

Yen, J., and Fan, X., “The semantics of proactive communication acts among team-based agents,” Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2002.